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Psy 101
Ch8 Cognition and Language
Question | Answer |
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algorithm | a mechanical, repetitive procedure for solving a problem |
attention | the tendency to respodn to some stimuli more than others or to remember some more than other |
attentional blink | a brief period after perceiving a stimulus, during which it is difficult to attend to another stimulus |
attentive process | a procedure that extracts informations from one part of the visual field at a time |
availability heuristic | the strategy of assuming that how easily one can remember examples of some kind of event indicates how common the event actually is |
base-rate information | data about the frequency or probability of a given item |
bilingual | able to use two language about equally well |
Broca's aphasia | a condition characterized by inarticulate speech and by difficulties with both using and understanding grammatical devices-prepositions, conjunctions, word endings, complex sentence structures, and so forth |
change blindness | the tendency to fail to detect changes in any part of a scene to which we are not focusing our attention |
cognition | the processes of thinking, gaining knowledge, and dealing with knowledge |
confirmation bias | the tendency to accept one hypothesis and then look for evidence to support it, instead of considering other possibilities |
critical thinking | the careful evaluation of evidence for and against any conclusion |
fixation | a period when teh eyes are steady |
framing effect | the tendency to answer a question differently when it is framed (phrased) differently |
functional fixedness | the tendency to adhere to a single approach to a problem or a single way of using an item |
heuristics | strategies for simplifying a problem or for guiding an investigation |
language acquisition device | a built-in mechanism for acquiring language |
morpheme | a unit of meaning |
overconfidence | the belief that one's opinions or predicitons are highly correct when in fact they are not |
phoneme | a unit of sound |
preattentive process | a procedure for extracting information automatically and simultaneously across a large portion of the visual field |
productivity | the ability to express new ideas |
prototype | a familiar or typical example of a category |
representativeness heuristic | the tendency to assume that, if an item is similar to members of a particular category, it is probably a member of that category itself |
saccade | a quick jump in the focus of the eyes from one point to another |
spreading activation | the process by which the activation of one concept also activates or primes other concepts that are linked to it |
Stroop effect | the tendency to read a word, especially if it is a color name, in spite of instructions to disregard the word and state the color of the ink in which it is printed |
sunk cost effect | the willingness to do something we wouldn't choose to do otherwise because of money or effort already spent |
transformational grammar | a system for converting a deep structure of a language into a surface structure |
Wernicke's aphasia | a condition marked by difficulty recalling the names of objects and impaired comprehension of language |
Williams syndrome | a genetic condition characterized by metnal retardation in most regards but skillful use of language |
word-superiority effect | identifying a letter with greater ease when it is part of a whole word than when it is presented by itself |